Tuesday, December 12, 2006

#1 ISLANDS - Return To The SeaActually this isn't the greatest 'album' ever, it really gets number one because there isn't anything else like it and by that I don't mean it is 'cool cause it is different,' I mean there really isn't anything even in the same league right now. But it still isn't The Unicorns, and the album falls short in many ways. To compare Islands and Unicorns is like comparing CSNY and like Crosby, where the fuck did Neil Young go HUH!!??? Seriously though, the main creative genius, the pie to the ice cream isn't in Islands and Islands is still pretty fucking cool but COME ON! Who the FUCK are you kidding! Like go hang out with Neil Young! I'm hoping this was like a small step, like something The Unicorns had to do, one of them had to go out and be in Islands and ruin my life, just so they could get back together and continue making like THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER. And like it isn't even like great music, it is amazing, it is timeless and intelligent, rough and hard, it is like future blues...if some dude was stuck on a beach with another dude for like 20,000 years the music that would come out would be something like what I hear from The Unicorns. And like seriously The Islands feels like one of those dudes was ripped away and taken to the city where he was forced to play some shit and beaten and like changed into earthlings like in Interstella 5555 and felt empty and longing for the other half and the beach of 20,000 years but just get the fuck back man! Go to the evil castle with the gold records in the walls and burn it down, then take a guitar shaped spaceship back home. I mean it is obvious that Islands can do it, make some music hoo hah some of it is really good hah hoooo but FUCKING KNOCK IT OFF,and go back with the other dude, call it ISLANDS if you want, thanks for understanding.

#3..... NATIONAL FOREST - ONE MILLIONOK nevermind. This album is definitely 3rd/1st. This is fast becoming one of my favorite albums of the decade. It is priceless, impossible to put into words. One of those albums you put on driving across Oklahoma in the middle of the night and blow your fucking kidney out easy. No reason why, hard to put your finger on the magic or where it comes from, like maybe the first time you hear someone Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset on a car stereo with one speaker and a broken back window. Like hearing food in New Mexico or dancing to setting up tents and sleeping bags in Colorado.

#4... Pete and The Pirates - Wait Stop BeginWhat the FUCK! I'm starting to get really pissed that this isn't the best album of 2006. In FACT, it is now officially number three...which is like tied for second, and in this case basically first place. So yeah this album is so fucking amazing it cheats, it gets fourth but it is number one of all time.

#5..... Junior Boys - So This Is GoodbyeWOW! GREAT ALBUM! Not much to add here, if you aren't down with this I'm not sure what is going on...and HEY! I'm not sure what is going on. In The Morning is probably Song of The Year, these guys are clean, clean like candy.

#7..... Beach House - Beach HouseNot sure why I like this album so much, most people don't seem to. Perhaps it is a personal thing, the synthesizers remind me of some of my favorite music (early Magnetic Fields with the girl singer Wayward Bus etc. don't tell anyone) and the girl's voice is kewl. I like to think of this salty pirate stomping his feet and playing the guitar while she sings. Dream album of 2007 would be Stephen Merritt written lyrics and compositions played by Beach House.

#9..... Mr. Nogatco - Nogatco Rd/Tomc3 - Project PolaroidThe Doctor Octagon Ego everyone anticipated in the release of The Return Of Doctor Octagon (which sucked) was found in the Viktor Vaughn producer IZ-REAL's Mr. Nagtco, which generally went under the radar compared to the fake Doctor Octagon release. Kool Keith was cool as fuck, he took a back seat to the beats, and there are some classic tracks on this. STILL, Automator PLEASE do another Doc Oc while Kool Keith can obviously still one-up the sex crazed mad doctor ego with a sex crazed mad alien scientist ego. Add a couple tracks from Project Polaroid and it makes one good album, number 9.

#10...... Wild Beasts - Brave Boulging Buoyant ClairvoyantsIf you took all the mp3s by these guys scattered across the web the past two months you would have a healthy EP for the Wild Beasts' upcoming release and although this is technically not an 'album' it is by far the best music released this year. NUMBER 1-0. The BBBC track alone is enough to win box set of the year, I will humbly place it at number 1-0 on my list, and you don't have to bother reading next year's number one album, it will be the Wild Beasts' record.

Once Upon A Time, a young man was forced to create a blog account in order to post a commentat a certain blog that will remain anonymous so as to protect the innocent. Because that blog had published such a masochist and racist load of BS and then refused to allow anyone to post a commentunless they had their own blog, the young man hadno choice but to depart upon a Grand Adventure into the sultry Forest of Blog. That young man was Garrett Phillips and he showed that blogger what the fuck was up.

Years passed and the young man was like "whatever." So then he decided to use the blogspace he created to own up that one lame-ass blog, and Perfume For Cologne was born. Since he was never the cleverest of young men he decided to make a music blog where (if one was so inclined) someone could come to see what sort of shit Garrett listens to all the time (what the fuck does that guy listen to? is heard all the time). Anyone is welcome to post/read here from now until forever but you can't be a racist and if you are a masochist you better be fn hot. I'll post my two "favorite bands of the day" every day and anyone else can get access to the blog and post anything music related. Right? Right!

DISCLAIMER

Any links to places outside this blogspace are innocently presumed to be legal (youtube, myspace) I do not support them by having links on my page to these sites, legal shit has nothing to do with the little folk like me and I will immediately remove any posts or links that I am asked to remove. There won't be any links to mp3s that aren't provided by the band themselves, and seriously somebody needs to talk to KRS-ONE about freedom of information.